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Raising the Shambhala Banner in Taiwan!
by Yeachin Tsai, Taipei, Taiwan
The buddha-dharma came to China from India about 2,000 years ago, and many schools have evolved since then. After hundreds of years of changing scenery, the only things that haven’t changed are the minds and hearts of human beings. Despite the countless amount of suffering endured throughout the ages, all people still have golden basic goodness within their hearts, just waiting to be discovered.
For the past thousand years, the vajrayana system of Tibetan Buddhism and the traditional Chinese mahayana system have mingled and enriched each other, and this mingling continues today. The traces of Buddha’s teaching are deep in the Chinese psyche, though they may be hidden at times by difficult outer circumstances.
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1 response - Posted 05.05.11
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no responses - Posted 12.22.10
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no responses - Posted 09.27.10
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no responses - Posted 01.31.09
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